Legal humor. Seriously.

March 26, 2009

Ninety Days Is Sentence For "Suspicious Activity" With Vacuum

A 29-year-old man who pleaded no contest last month to indecent-exposure charges has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, reports said today. The man was arrested last October after someone called police to report "suspicious activity" at a car wash in Saginaw County, Michigan. The activity in question was apparently unnatural congress with one of the car wash's vacuums.

I guess he's lucky he wasn't also prosecuted for a low-pants-law violation, which is all the rage these days. On the other hand, since those offenses are often prosecuted under an existing indecent-exposure statute, maybe he was. Ninety days seems a little excessive for a single incident of this kind, although I suppose it is more reprehensible when the victim is incapable of consent.